Anybody here study Latin grammar?

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Originally Posted by votivesoul

I never studied Latin, but I did study two of its descendant languages, Spanish and French, at the collegiate level, and verb stems in those languages become important later on, as it relates to tenses and irregular verbs. Perhaps Latin works the same way?

I've studied Spanish, we learned verb families (ar, er, and ir, plus irregulars). We learned conjugations like this:

-ar family, like HABLAR (to speak)

-o -amos
-as -ais
- a -an

Thus,
hablo hablamos
hablas hablais
habla hablan

We learned this for all tenses, voices, and moods. It's all about the paradigms. Learn the infinitive, drop the ending, add the personal ending.

Stems were the things you held a flower by.